Could I have imagined 21 years ago that I’d be making a living as an independent journalist doing the sorts of things I wanted to do in this career? Is there a point to asking rhetorical questions?
In any case, I do not post these to this website enough because this website really isn’t ready for me to promote. I don’t really know how to turn on the things I want to make it useful, such as an ability to count traffic. There are people who could do that sort of thing, but I do not seem to be one of them.
Now, twenty years ago, I still had soft parts of the brain that could learn things and I had to troubleshoot this website a lot in the early days. One of the limitations was a lack of storage, and that’s why many older podcasts aren’t on the site anymore. I would take them down in order to free up space for new things.
I really didn’t know what I was doing.
I would argue I still don’t entirely know what I am doing, but this morning I finally posted the podcast edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement for the week of September 28, 2026. I’m reposting it here, mostly for posterity and as a test to see if more than one person sees it.
I can’t seem to get the images to display properly. This site is not optimized, but yet it is here. Can I teach myself new tricks? For now, I’ll settle on remembering to post this here. After all, I’m paying about $300 a year to keep this thing going. Maybe there’s new life in it, somehow.
In any case, let’s get on with it.
In this edition:
- Council addresses concerns related mass grading for Azalea Springs development (read the story)
- Charlottesville asks: Can you go a week without driving? (read the story)
- The UVA Buildings and Grounds Committee gets an update on construction projects (read the story)
- A look at the sales-tax referendums in Albemarle and Charlottesville (read the story)
- This year’s usage of the Ivy Creek Solid Waste and Recycling Center continues to surpass previous years (read the story)
- Charlottesville City Council briefed on regional solid waste plan (read the story)
